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gtcrais/laravel-persona
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Laravel Persona
---------------

[](#laravel-persona)

This is NOT a first-party package. This package adds Visitor and Persona concepts to your Laravel application.

**Requirements:** Tested on Laravel 12. It should work on lower versions as well.

**Note:** Docs could use more information, but I made this package mainly for myself. If you happen to use it, hit me up, and I'll update the docs with better explanations.

---

**Visitor:** Non-registered user which still needs to be tracked and stored into the database. This is achieved using UUID stored in a cookie.

**Persona:** Umbrella model for Users and Visitors. When calling `request()->persona()`, it will return currently logged in `User` if it exists. If not, it will return currently tracked `Visitor` if it exists. If not, it will return `null`.

**Installation:**

- Run `composer require gtcrais/laravel-persona`
- Run `php artisan laravel-persona:install`
- Add `... implements GTCrais\LaravelPersona\Models\Contracts\Persona` Contract to your `User` model
- Add `use GTCrais\LaravelPersona\Models\Concerns\UserPersona` Concern to your `User` model
- Migrate the database
- Register middleware:

```
use App\Http\Middleware\AuthPersona;
use App\Http\Middleware\EnsurePersonaExists;
use App\Http\Middleware\ResolvePersona;

$middleware->appendToGroup('web', [ResolvePersona::class]);
$middleware->appendToGroup('api', [ResolvePersona::class]);
$middleware->alias(['ensurePersonaExists' => EnsurePersonaExists::class]);
$middleware->alias(['authPersona' => AuthPersona::class]);

```

- Upon successful login:

```
use App\Http\Middleware\Concerns\InteractsWithVisitor;

...

if ($visitor = auth()->guard('web')->user()->visitor) {
    $this->setVisitorUuidCookie($visitor->uuid);
    $this->injectVisitorData(request(), $visitor);
}

```

- Upon successful registration:

```
use App\Http\Middleware\Concerns\InteractsWithVisitor;

...

$visitor = $this->optionallyCreateVisitor();

$this->associateVisitorWithUser($visitor, $user);
$this->injectVisitorData(request(), $visitor);

```

###  Health Score

28

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LowBetter than 54% of packages

Maintenance50

Moderate activity, may be stable

Popularity0

Limited adoption so far

Community6

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity49

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

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Total

1

Last Release

355d ago

### Community

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